Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether small plates covering the roof and the hood of the DrivAer estate vehicle can be used as airbrakes and increase its drag as well as the downforce. The presented results were obtained with the use of the commercial computational fluid dynamics soft...
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| author | Krzysztof Kurec Konrad Kamieniecki Janusz Piechna |
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| description | The purpose of this study was to investigate whether small plates covering the roof and the hood of the DrivAer estate vehicle can be used as airbrakes and increase its drag as well as the downforce. The presented results were obtained with the use of the commercial computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS<sup>®</sup> Fluent. The main findings of the article are that the aerodynamic devices such as flaps covering surfaces of the vehicle can have a significant impact on drag increase and can be used not only to make the design of the car more striking but also beneficial when utilized as a part of an active aerodynamic setup. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7217143e9ad449a2b786eb590907df1e2023-11-23T13:39:20ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-01-0115261910.3390/en15020619Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car BodyKrzysztof Kurec0Konrad Kamieniecki1Janusz Piechna2Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Warsaw University of Technology, Sw. A. Boboli 8, 02-525 Warsaw, PolandInstitute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Warsaw University of Technology, Sw. A. Boboli 8, 02-525 Warsaw, PolandInstitute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 24, 00-665 Warsaw, PolandThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether small plates covering the roof and the hood of the DrivAer estate vehicle can be used as airbrakes and increase its drag as well as the downforce. The presented results were obtained with the use of the commercial computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS<sup>®</sup> Fluent. The main findings of the article are that the aerodynamic devices such as flaps covering surfaces of the vehicle can have a significant impact on drag increase and can be used not only to make the design of the car more striking but also beneficial when utilized as a part of an active aerodynamic setup.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/2/619CFDautomobile aerodynamicsactive aerodynamics |
| spellingShingle | Krzysztof Kurec Konrad Kamieniecki Janusz Piechna Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body Energies CFD automobile aerodynamics active aerodynamics |
| title | Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body |
| title_full | Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body |
| title_fullStr | Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body |
| title_short | Influence of Different Plates Arrangements on the Car Body |
| title_sort | influence of different plates arrangements on the car body |
| topic | CFD automobile aerodynamics active aerodynamics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/2/619 |
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